The Wisdom of Father Brown
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Librivox recording of The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
Read by Martin Clifton
This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chestertons fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight into human evil. His methods, unlike those of his near contemporary Sherlock Holmes, although based on observation of details often unnoticed by others, tended to be intuitive rather than deductive. Although clearly devout, he always emphasizes rationality: despite his religiousness and his belief in God and miracles, he manages to see the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation of the problem. He is a devout, educated and "civilized" clergyman, who is totally familiar with contemporary and secular thought and behavior. His character was though to be based on Father John O'Connor (1870 - 1952), a parish priest in Bradford, Yorkshire. (Summary by Martin)
Chapter 1: The Absence of Mr Glass
Chapter 2: The Paradise of Thieves
Chapter 3: The Duel of Dr Hirsch
Chapter 4: The Man in the Passage
Chapter 5: The Mistake of the Machine
Chapter 6: The Head of Caesar
Chapter 7: The Purple Wig
Chapter 8: The Perishing of the Pendragons
Chapter 9: The God of the Gongs
Chapter 10: The Salad of Colonel Cray
Chapter 11: The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
Chapter 12: The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
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Read by Martin Clifton
This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chestertons fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight into human evil. His methods, unlike those of his near contemporary Sherlock Holmes, although based on observation of details often unnoticed by others, tended to be intuitive rather than deductive. Although clearly devout, he always emphasizes rationality: despite his religiousness and his belief in God and miracles, he manages to see the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation of the problem. He is a devout, educated and "civilized" clergyman, who is totally familiar with contemporary and secular thought and behavior. His character was though to be based on Father John O'Connor (1870 - 1952), a parish priest in Bradford, Yorkshire. (Summary by Martin)
Chapter 1: The Absence of Mr Glass
Chapter 2: The Paradise of Thieves
Chapter 3: The Duel of Dr Hirsch
Chapter 4: The Man in the Passage
Chapter 5: The Mistake of the Machine
Chapter 6: The Head of Caesar
Chapter 7: The Purple Wig
Chapter 8: The Perishing of the Pendragons
Chapter 9: The God of the Gongs
Chapter 10: The Salad of Colonel Cray
Chapter 11: The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
Chapter 12: The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit Librivox.org
M4B format available
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- 2006-03-24 18:16:32
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- Call number
- 440
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Reviewer:
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December 1, 2014
Subject: Good stories, bad recording
Subject: Good stories, bad recording
The stories are engaging and fun, and the reading is done fine, but the sound dropping in and out is enough to drive somebody bonkers.
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Philippe Horak
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December 16, 2007
Subject: Wonderful reading
Subject: Wonderful reading
Martin Clifton delivers a perfect reading of G.K. Chesterton’s “The Wisdom of Father Brown”. Listeners will no doubt find that not all the stories
...
in this collection are of the highest quality and that some degree of supernatural is always part of the author’s writing. A very good recording, thank you Mr Clifton!
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